On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Tonya Browning wrote:
>
> Since no one's really mentioned it, I want to note that one of the (many)
> things that really bothered me about the film Starship Troopers was the
> portrayal of people of color.
Which is really false to Heinlein's vision!!!
If you're black in this movie, you either quit boot camp,
Which recruit was this? Not Breckenridge, I hope! (In the book)
get your arm fried off so a white boy can gladly take your
> command, or fall on a bomb to help save aforementioned white boy.
I remember Johnny taking command when someone was killed, I forget
from whom. (In the book).
If
> you're Asian or Hispanic, you're basically backdrop
WHAT?!?!?!? Johnny, Carmen, Dizzy etc were most specifically Hispanic.
and if you're from
> Buenos Aires (like the four major characters in the film), you're white.
Unca' Bob isn't whirling in his grave. He's throwing up.
> I'm sick of extrapolated films that still believe the world will be white
> three hundred years from now (which isn't true of our present world).
The director's European. What can I say? !@#$%^&*()_+_)CENSORED< BLEEP.
> Sorry if this sounds like a rant, I'm just tired of these kind of
> "oversights."
You, me, and the Heinleins. The book made a POINT out of the totally
multicultural MI!!!
At least I got to watch a preview of a new Chow-Yun Fat
> movie before ST.
>
> tonya
>
Patricia (Pat) Mathews
mathews@unm.edu
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